Security News > 2019 > May

Orange Acquires Cybersecurity Firm SecureLink
2019-05-08 12:20

French telecom giant Orange on Tuesday announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Netherlands-based cybersecurity firm SecureLink. read more

Cynet Provides Security Responders with Free IR Tool to Validate and Respond to Active Threats
2019-05-08 12:01

Cynet Free IR empowers its users with a solution that is accessible and easy to use, bringing crucial incident response services in-house, while saving them valuable time and resources.

Cynet Free IR tool offering empowers responders to know and act against active attacks
2019-05-08 12:00

The saying that there are two types of organizations, those that have gotten breached and those who have but just don’t know it yet, has never been more relevant, making sound incident response a...

Unpatched Flaw in UC Browser Apps Could Let Hackers Launch Phishing Attacks
2019-05-08 11:33

A bug bounty hunter has discovered and publicly disclosed details of an unpatched browser address bar spoofing vulnerability that affects popular Chinese UC Browser and UC Browser Mini apps for...

WordPress updates are digitally signed at last!
2019-05-08 11:28

WordPress 5.2 is out and brings a number of functional improvements, but the great news for those who are worried about the security of their installation is the implementation of digital signing...

Latest Android security updates, and Google to fix patch delays for Pixel
2019-05-08 11:24

Google's May security update for Android is out – but will you be lucky enough to get it this week? If you own one of a Pixel device, then yes.

US foreign minister Mike Pompeo to give UK a bollocking over Huawei 5G plans
2019-05-08 11:05

And after that he's having tea with an archbishop. No, really America’s foreign secretary is to deliver a telling-off to the UK over the British government’s decision to maintain the Huawei status...

Malicious MS Office Macro Creator
2019-05-08 11:03

Evil Clippy is a tool for creating malicious Microsoft Office macros: At BlackHat Asia we released Evil Clippy, a tool which assists red teamers and security testers in creating malicious MS...

Malvertiser behind 100+ million bad ads indicted in the US
2019-05-08 11:00

A Ukrainian and his gang allegedly smeared malvertising for 4.5 years and tried to rent out a botnet full of infected computers.

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School lunch company exec arrested for skewering rival’s site
2019-05-08 10:40

The Choicelunch CFO is accused of hacking student data out of The LunchMaster's site and anonymously ratting it out for bad security.